chrisom

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chris=om

CIDE DICTIONARY

chrisom, n. [See Chrism.].

•  A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.  [1913 Webster]
•  A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.  Blount.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chrisom, n.
1 = CHRISM.
2 (in full chrisom-cloth) hist. a white robe put on a child at baptism, and used as its shroud if it died within the month.

Etymology

ME, as pop. pronunc. of CHRISM